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Coastwise

Series of 48 - No.2

Old and New

This photograph shows in the foreground one of the few remaining sailing trawlers of Lowestoft Harbour, which are used for catching plaice and sole. In the background are two of the more recent steam drifters employed in the herring industry. Drifters carry sufficient nets which, when fastened together and suspended in the sea, make a wall a mile or more long and several yards deep whilst the nets used by trawlers consist of an immense bag which may be 80 feet long.

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Caption: Old and New